Very sad, very powerful, beautiful writing.

Hannah

Comment is about The Silent Scream (blog)

Original item by Shruti

And a very happy new year to you too Suki!

Comment is about Suki Spangles (poet profile)

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Hi there Ray,

Wishing you a Happy New Year! Have a good one..

Suki

Comment is about COAT HANGERS (blog)

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Hi Ankita,

Wishing you a Happy New Year!

Suki

Comment is about Tax- I don't have problem. (blog)

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John, Happy New Year! Mourinho is so miserable I find him hilarious..

Suki

Comment is about I WHINGE AND WHINE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks, Helen. He really is well suited to a strong line of United moaners. Van Gaal, Moyes and the Master himself, Fergie.

Comment is about I WHINGE AND WHINE (blog)

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Hi Cynthia, just popping by to wish you a Happy New Year x

Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)

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Ha! He is really getting on my top note at the moment. I used to be a fan but he's a miserable old git these days.

Comment is about I WHINGE AND WHINE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Andy

thanks for kicking my new year off with this fabulous poem.





Rose ?

Comment is about Jackdaw (blog)

Original item by Andy Humphrey

keep your lovely chin up Wendy!

and good luck.


Rose ?

Comment is about OOP'S I'm In A Mesh (blog)

Original item by Wendy Higson

cool Henry cool! I did one some time ago 'wishful drinking' that's why I was attracted to your's

great minds and all that ?




Rose ?

Comment is about Drinking About You (blog)

Original item by Henry Clydes

Thank you for your observations and kind comments. I like to write about things that are either dear to me or cause me some concern. Heritage is especially important to me. So is nature. Continually treasured buildings, structures and landscapes are destroyed without consideration or sentiment. I was recently in Barcelona and pleased to see that the old bullring (Las Arenas) has been preserved and given a more suitable identity. As bullfighting became increasingly more of a concern, this architectural masterpiece could have been lost... but now it provides leisure activities, performance venues, shopping, restaurants and much more. You also get a wonderful panoramic view of the city from the roof. So with a little imagination.........

Comment is about The Westwood Cooling Towers – Execution Day (blog)

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kinda like these to-the-point short poems - like mini boxing bouts or spoken-to-camera narratives in old movies. Sort of film noir(ish). You're definitely not broken if you can write poetry and post it online! Col.

Comment is about Drinking About You (blog)

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Thanks Stu. And no dramas on 'rictus'!
Chris

Comment is about Distant Windows (blog)

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My mom always told me only guarantees in this life are 'Death and Taxes', which thinking of it now would be a very befitting title for a poem which you may have inspired me to now write. Always enjoy your work.

Comment is about Tax- I don't have problem. (blog)

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I think of the Euston Arch and its vandals - many gasometers too; and these quite graceful impressive structures have been coming down in many places recently - an apparent embarrassment to local authorities. Homes will spring up like toadstools in place of oaks of course.

Nice piece of writing J.R.

Ray

Comment is about The Westwood Cooling Towers – Execution Day (blog)

Original item by J R Harris

excellent short piece chris. i'm stealing the word rictus for later use!

Comment is about Distant Windows (blog)

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brilliant imagery. i love the mental pictures this paints in my mind, as if the building were a lumbering, mythical behemoth finally brought down by the teeming humans with ropes and picks. like an clipped, urban gullivers travels. thanks for this, a fine way to start reading in 2018

Comment is about The Westwood Cooling Towers – Execution Day (blog)

Original item by J R Harris

nice one Henry

Comment is about Secrets (blog)

Original item by Henry Clydes

Thanks folks so much . This was haunting me initially because it was going to be about "question marks" and what they represented; which foxed me until I got a more solid image ie the coathangers. Hope that makes sense ?!

The old pulling up the door catches on british cars - even the AA used a plastic version ! I was happy with the first lines, but added an afterthought. Thanks David.

Thanks Kevin. I often bring inanimate things to life - just the kid in me.

Cheers Col. Always nice to get your max. attention - I know what you mean. I think the extra stanza opens it up for more depth - but it's a shame to take the liberty in a way.

Thank you Cynthia. Same as all above, as the point was worth making. Cleft stick time !

Happy New Year to youse all.

Ray xxx

Comment is about COAT HANGERS (blog)

Original item by ray pool

absolutely belting poem. love the imagery and the punch at the end is brilliant. worthy, i'd say.

Comment is about 'Resistance' by John Short is Write Out Loud's first Poem of the Week for 2018 (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Rich, despite adversarial politics and different schools of thought you have echoed a valued truth. Thank you for this. Keith

Comment is about Common Ground (blog)

Original item by Rich

Thanks both for your comments.

I agree, we have the capacity, ingenuity and capability to look after and nurture our envrionment and the plethora of fellow Earth dwellers we share that with.

What frustrates me is that we don't.

So much could be done, and just isn't.

That doesn't take away from the amazing and vital work of so many of us get involved in and support.

I just worry that time will run out, and we'll be faced with a giant problem that it's too late to fix.

I do cross my fingers and hope, though!

Comment is about Earth's sword (blog)

Original item by Rich

Writers on writers eh? Almost as bad as poets on poets!
An interesting viewpoint Fitzroy. You might also place the question on the discussion section. You may have more response perhaps.

Comment is about Lazy Poets (blog)

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I just fancied dropping a rather misshapen stone into the pond to see what the ripples might bring. Yours in the only ripple so far. And I thank you...There's a story that Burroughs once met Sam Beckett at an event in Paris. When Beckett was asked an opinion of him later, he said: 'Well, he's a writer.' Typically terse, the Thin Man. What he meant, of course, he never elaborated upon. The way Burroughs tells the story, he took it as a compliment. To actually be called a writer by Beckett he considered accolade enough. Well, you would, wouldn't you? But I guess my take is that a 'writer' will say and do pretty much anything, especially for effect....So what?

Comment is about Lazy Poets (blog)

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Beautifully written... A very powerful concept, as well!!

Comment is about Befriending Fear (blog)

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I was really proud to have written this story. I hope some of you enjoy it as well!!
You can imagine Albert with any type of accent you like. I prefer to think he would speak with a sort of southern drawl.

Comment is about Albert Lemmon Sees The End. (blog)

Original item by Javis T.

Happy New Year Trevor. I look forward to reading your poems in 2018. Hope it's a good one for you and yours. Col.

Comment is about Happy New Year (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

Awesome Louis! Happy New Year!

Comment is about Resolution (blog)

Original item by Louis Audet

Thanks for reading this Keith. Hope it hasn't made you too depressed but I guess you are living in a nicer climate with a lot more sun. Though I do know a number of people who have SAD lamps in order to cope with the winter months.
Hope you had a good Christmas
and have a brilliant New year. look forward to reading more of your work in 2018
Cheers
Martin

Comment is about The endless journey (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

MC. Thank you for your kind comment. May I wish you a Very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year. Keith

Comment is about A New Vision (blog)

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Thanks, MC. Nice riposte. We should duel! (I did spell that right).

Comment is about I'M DREAMING OF A HARD BREXIT (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Excellent stuff JC. Just the job to raise a smile on this
particular New Year's Eve.
But to borrow from elsewhere -

"O the political needy/greedy is frightful
But the thought of sovereign Britain so delightful
Just sort out what we pay and what we owe,
Let us go, let us go, let us go!"
(apologies to Sammy Cahn and his song "Let It Snow")

Comment is about I'M DREAMING OF A HARD BREXIT (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

A stimulating essay into the paradox of the beauty/harsh
cruelty of the natural world that surrounds us and upon
which we largely rely, and our own ingenuity that allows us
to survive as a species and which enables others to do likewise.
We have our failures but we are
the only life-form that actively & consciously involves itself
in the interests and protection of
others in the end game of existence, whatever its source.
We are given the intelligence to understand this and thus cannot
afford the ultimate failure of not acknowledging that awareness each and every day.

Comment is about Earth's sword (blog)

Original item by Rich

so nice to read warm-hearted sentiments like these Joanne. May your new year be a rewarding one.Thank you.Jemima.

Comment is about Cheers to the new beginning (blog)

Original item by Joanne German

Intriguing, involving and, for me, containing corroboration
of an opinion occasionally bubbling to the surface of the
poetical stream. I know of William Burroughs and his
reputation but not much of his material. Funny how
unexpected viewpoints emerge to flavour the cauldron of conflicting creativity.

Comment is about Lazy Poets (blog)

Original item by fitzroy herbert

A hearty "hear-hear" to these sentiments so cogently
expressed.

Comment is about Cheers to the new beginning (blog)

Original item by Joanne German

Seize the day! Those words still have proper resonance for
the lives we lead. By all means let us learn to live with
failure - for without that knowledge we would not have the
experience and hope to keep going onwards and upwards.
It is not lost on me that whenever danger and risk appear
on the horizon there is also a recognition and response to
accommodate them, not least with the hazards affecting
the natural world.
That's why I am, and will remain, an eternal optimist.
Nil desperandum!

Comment is about A New Vision (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Jon, thanks for your comment as it is much appreciated. Keith

Comment is about There is no Shangri-la (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Hey Keith
This poem rings true and, when you think about it, things, places, possessions are pointless without inner peace and being happy personally.
You've put it across very well.
Jon

Comment is about There is no Shangri-la (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Thank you David, and the very best to you in 2018.
Chris

Comment is about Heretic (blog)

Original item by Chris Hubbard

Jon, thank you for this. It is experience and the passage of time which brings this kind of knowledge. Keith

Comment is about Friendship (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Ray, thank you for this and how right you are. Knowing and being comfortable with oneself is crucial to being content and happy. Thank you again. May I wish you a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year. Keith

Comment is about There is no Shangri-la (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

keep them coming Louis, you have a unique and irrepressible style that often makes me smile ?

Comment is about Resolution (blog)

Original item by Louis Audet

???
You can also visit for poetries on https://modernpoetrycreation.blogspot.com

Comment is about A drop of life (blog)

Original item by Shruti

Thanks your words helped me. Perfect message for my day.

Comment is about World Mental Health Day // October 10th (blog)

Original item by Petal

Nice, strong belief if, "If it doesn't rhyme, it is not poetic." Very true indeed to my ears, even if others on here don't think so.

Comment is about Myescape (poet profile)

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wonderful Shruti!

Comment is about A drop of life (blog)

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Interesting bit of philosophy here Keith. Home is where the heart is - plus a bit of my own thrown in: that you can only be happy with others if you you're happy with yourself (my view ). The grass is greener on the other side.

Ray

Comment is about There is no Shangri-la (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Hi Keith
Wise words, obviously honed from life's journey.
I agree with you though, there are certain times when you know who is and isn't a friend; the qualities listed throughout this poem bringing home how special those kind of people are.
Great work
Jon

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